| 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day?" |
1 |
2,830,000 |
|
1 |
100,000 |
| 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" |
3 |
868,000 |
|
2 |
51,500 |
| 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" |
9 |
723,000 |
|
3 |
49,500 |
| 29: "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" |
19 |
418,000 |
|
4 |
32,100 |
| 73: "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" |
21 |
256,000 |
|
5 |
28,100 |
| 138: "When my love swears that she is made of truth" |
25 |
207,000 |
|
6 |
18,500 |
| 104: "To me, fair friend, you never can be old" |
109 |
41,000 |
|
7 |
17,500 |
| 32: "If thou survive my well-contented day" |
88 |
53,500 |
|
8 |
16,000 |
| 1: "From fairest creatures we desire increase" |
22 |
253,000 |
|
9 |
15,800 |
| 30: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" |
23 |
250,000 |
|
10 |
14,500 |
| 12: "When I do count the clock that tells the time" |
27 |
196,000 |
|
11 |
14,300 |
| 55: "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments" |
113 |
37,700 |
|
12 |
14,200 |
| 77: "Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear" |
126 |
30,300 |
|
12 |
14,200 |
| 126: "O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power" |
110 |
40,800 |
|
12 |
14,200 |
| 85: "My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still" |
140 |
25,600 |
|
15 |
13,800 |
| 42: "That thou hast her, it is not all my grief" |
96 |
48,700 |
|
16 |
13,500 |
| 19: "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws" |
50 |
93,400 |
|
17 |
12,500 |
| 146: "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth" |
71 |
70,100 |
|
18 |
11,700 |
| 2: "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" |
32 |
134,000 |
|
19 |
11,600 |
| 113: "Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind" |
62 |
82,400 |
|
20 |
11,500 |
| 115: "Those lines that I before have writ do lie" |
119 |
33,100 |
|
20 |
11,500 |
| 108: "What's in the brain that ink may character" |
143 |
25,000 |
|
22 |
11,400 |
| 3: "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" |
41 |
110,000 |
|
23 |
10,800 |
| 76: "Why is my verse so barren of new pride" |
120 |
32,700 |
|
23 |
10,800 |
| 17: "Who will believe my verse in time to come" |
41 |
110,000 |
|
25 |
10,700 |
| 33: "Full many a glorious morning have I seen" |
36 |
123,000 |
|
26 |
10,300 |
| 132: "Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me" |
84 |
56,100 |
|
26 |
10,300 |
| 14: "Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck" |
90 |
52,900 |
|
28 |
10,200 |
| 98: "From you have I been absent in the spring" |
136 |
26,700 |
|
28 |
10,200 |
| 6: "Then let not winter's ragged hand deface" |
61 |
82,800 |
|
30 |
10,100 |
| 34: "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day" |
82 |
57,700 |
|
30 |
10,100 |
| 125: "Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy" |
6 |
807,000 |
|
30 |
10,100 |
| 15: "When I consider every thing that grows" |
30 |
137,000 |
|
33 |
9,990 |
| 35: "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done" |
77 |
63,000 |
|
34 |
9,980 |
| 69: "Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth
view" |
93 |
50,000 |
|
35 |
9,820 |
| 81: "Or I shall live your epitaph to make" |
125 |
30,400 |
|
36 |
9,810 |
| 75: "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" |
116 |
34,100 |
|
37 |
9,680 |
| 100: "Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so
long" |
150 |
21,900 |
|
38 |
9,650 |
| 106: "When in the chronicle of wasted time" |
37 |
114,000 |
|
39 |
9,590 |
| 20: "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted" |
38 |
113,000 |
|
40 |
9,290 |
| 94: "They that have power to hurt and will do none" |
127 |
30,200 |
|
41 |
9,210 |
| 117: "Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all" |
7 |
797,000 |
|
42 |
9,180 |
| 10: "For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any" |
67 |
77,000 |
|
43 |
9,140 |
| 120: "That you were once unkind befriends me now" |
58 |
84,400 |
|
43 |
9,140 |
| 143: "Lo! as a careful huswife runs to catch" |
18 |
505,000 |
|
45 |
9,080 |
| 102: "My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in
seeming" |
146 |
23,600 |
|
46 |
9,060 |
| 153: "Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep" |
101 |
46,500 |
|
47 |
9,010 |
| 38: "How can my Muse want subject to invent" |
78 |
62,200 |
|
48 |
9,000 |
| 89: "Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault" |
117 |
33,500 |
|
49 |
8,820 |
| 147: "My love is as a fever, longing still" |
38 |
113,000 |
|
50 |
8,810 |
| 129: "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame" |
44 |
108,000 |
|
51 |
8,780 |
| 82: "I grant thou wert not married to my Muse" |
132 |
29,100 |
|
52 |
8,680 |
| 53: "What is your substance, whereof are you made" |
57 |
85,100 |
|
53 |
8,630 |
| 47: "Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took" |
92 |
50,200 |
|
54 |
8,560 |
| 13: "O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are" |
115 |
36,000 |
|
55 |
8,450 |
| 9: "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye" |
34 |
131,000 |
|
56 |
8,410 |
| 86: "Was it the proud full sail of his great verse" |
131 |
29,300 |
|
57 |
8,360 |
| 27: "Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed" |
53 |
87,600 |
|
58 |
8,310 |
| 78: "So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse" |
128 |
29,700 |
|
59 |
8,180 |
| 71: "No longer mourn for me when I am dead" |
79 |
61,200 |
|
60 |
8,140 |
| 37: "As a decrepit father takes delight" |
91 |
52,300 |
|
61 |
8,120 |
| 63: "Against my love shall be, as I am now" |
135 |
26,900 |
|
61 |
8,120 |
| 88: "When thou shalt be disposed to set me light" |
130 |
29,600 |
|
63 |
7,940 |
| 90: "Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now" |
103 |
45,300 |
|
63 |
7,940 |
| 149: "Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not" |
98 |
48,300 |
|
65 |
7,900 |
| 25: "Let those who are in favour with their stars" |
65 |
78,500 |
|
66 |
7,840 |
| 92: "But do thy worst to steal thyself away" |
144 |
24,700 |
|
67 |
7,810 |
| 79: "Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid" |
128 |
29,700 |
|
68 |
7,790 |
| 60: "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled
shore" |
121 |
32,600 |
|
69 |
7,780 |
| 110: "Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there" |
89 |
53,100 |
|
70 |
7,760 |
| 128: "How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st" |
60 |
84,000 |
|
70 |
7,760 |
| 50: "How heavy do I journey on the way" |
80 |
58,200 |
|
72 |
7,730 |
| 118: "Like as to make our appetites more keen" |
4 |
858,000 |
|
73 |
7,600 |
| 144: "Two loves I have of comfort and despair" |
48 |
105,000 |
|
74 |
7,560 |
| 4: "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend" |
54 |
86,700 |
|
75 |
7,410 |
| 36: "Let me confess that we two must be twain" |
10 |
718,000 |
|
75 |
7,410 |
| 24: "Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath
stell'd" |
20 |
263,000 |
|
77 |
7,340 |
| 139: "O, call not me to justify the wrong" |
16 |
624,000 |
|
77 |
7,340 |
| 51: "Thus can my love excuse the slow offence" |
112 |
38,200 |
|
79 |
7,310 |
| 112: "Your love and pity doth the impression fill" |
152 |
20,100 |
|
79 |
7,310 |
| 114: "Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with
you" |
31 |
135,000 |
|
81 |
7,280 |
| 122: "Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain" |
5 |
817,000 |
|
82 |
7,240 |
| 45: "The other two, slight air and purging fire" |
12 |
715,000 |
|
83 |
7,190 |
| 111: "O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide" |
70 |
72,800 |
|
84 |
7,150 |
| 7: "Lo, in the orient when the gracious light" |
35 |
129,000 |
|
85 |
7,140 |
| 119: "What potions have I drunk of Siren tears" |
56 |
85,300 |
|
86 |
7,040 |
| 84: "Who is it that says most? which can say more" |
94 |
49,500 |
|
87 |
6,990 |
| 83: "I never saw that you did painting need" |
117 |
33,500 |
|
88 |
6,970 |
| 57: "Being your slave, what should I do but tend" |
45 |
107,000 |
|
89 |
6,890 |
| 134: "So, now I have confess'd that he is thine" |
29 |
143,000 |
|
90 |
6,880 |
| 54: "O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem" |
64 |
80,700 |
|
91 |
6,860 |
| 99: "The forward violet thus did I chide" |
134 |
29,000 |
|
91 |
6,860 |
| 40: "Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all" |
83 |
57,300 |
|
93 |
6,750 |
| 67: "Ah! wherefore with infection should he live" |
140 |
25,600 |
|
94 |
6,710 |
| 154: "The little Love-god lying once asleep" |
72 |
69,600 |
|
94 |
6,710 |
| 123: "No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do
change" |
63 |
81,900 |
|
96 |
6,640 |
| 59: "If there be nothing new, but that which is" |
107 |
42,600 |
|
97 |
6,630 |
| 140: "Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press" |
13 |
669,000 |
|
98 |
6,590 |
| 133: "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to
groan" |
108 |
42,300 |
|
99 |
6,530 |
| 121: "'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed" |
2 |
973,000 |
|
100 |
6,520 |
| 22: "My glass shall not persuade me I am old" |
59 |
84,300 |
|
101 |
6,490 |
| 80: "O, how I faint when I of you do write" |
97 |
48,400 |
|
102 |
6,480 |
| 21: "So is it not with me as with that Muse" |
68 |
74,200 |
|
103 |
6,450 |
| 65: "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless
sea" |
102 |
46,200 |
|
104 |
6,400 |
| 97: "How like a winter hath my absence been" |
111 |
38,700 |
|
105 |
6,360 |
| 61: "Is it thy will thy image should keep open" |
104 |
44,200 |
|
106 |
6,310 |
| 151: "Love is too young to know what conscience is" |
40 |
111,000 |
|
107 |
6,300 |
| 70: "That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect" |
139 |
25,700 |
|
108 |
6,290 |
| 68: "Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn" |
138 |
25,800 |
|
109 |
6,090 |
| 43: "When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see" |
43 |
109,000 |
|
110 |
6,080 |
| 96: "Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness" |
151 |
21,100 |
|
111 |
6,020 |
| 49: "Against that time, if ever that time come" |
87 |
53,800 |
|
112 |
5,920 |
| 131: "Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art" |
15 |
642,000 |
|
112 |
5,920 |
| 46: "Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war" |
55 |
86,000 |
|
114 |
5,860 |
| 23: "As an unperfect actor on the stage" |
47 |
106,000 |
|
115 |
5,790 |
| 5: "Those hours that with gentle work did frame" |
52 |
89,700 |
|
116 |
5,710 |
| 105: "Let not my love be call'd idolatry" |
147 |
23,500 |
|
117 |
5,540 |
| 52: "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" |
99 |
48,000 |
|
118 |
5,400 |
| 58: "That god forbid that made me first your slave" |
154 |
14,500 |
|
119 |
5,380 |
| 16: "But wherefore do not you a mightier way" |
75 |
66,800 |
|
120 |
5,340 |
| 91: "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill" |
86 |
54,200 |
|
121 |
5,330 |
| 103: "Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth" |
149 |
22,600 |
|
122 |
5,290 |
| 142: "Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate" |
81 |
57,900 |
|
123 |
5,100 |
| 145: "Those lips that Love's own hand did make" |
49 |
96,900 |
|
124 |
5,090 |
| 41: "Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits" |
14 |
663,000 |
|
125 |
5,070 |
| 135: "Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will'" |
85 |
54,900 |
|
126 |
5,010 |
| 72: "O, lest the world should task you to recite" |
142 |
25,400 |
|
127 |
4,760 |
| 8: "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?" |
45 |
107,000 |
|
128 |
4,750 |
| 107: "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul" |
132 |
29,100 |
|
129 |
4,740 |
| 141: "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes" |
24 |
208,000 |
|
130 |
4,700 |
| 48: "How careful was I, when I took my way" |
106 |
43,100 |
|
131 |
4,640 |
| 101: "O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends" |
148 |
22,800 |
|
132 |
4,630 |
| 39: "O! how thy worth with manners may I sing" |
11 |
717,000 |
|
133 |
4,610 |
| 74: "But be contented: when that fell arrest" |
105 |
43,500 |
|
134 |
4,590 |
| 127: "In the old age black was not counted fair" |
51 |
91,300 |
|
135 |
4,570 |
| 150: "O, from what power hast thou this powerful
might" |
26 |
204,000 |
|
136 |
4,470 |
| 62: "Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye" |
122 |
32,300 |
|
137 |
4,440 |
| 31: "Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts" |
100 |
47,400 |
|
138 |
4,390 |
| 11: "As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou
growest" |
27 |
196,000 |
|
139 |
4,380 |
| 87: "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing" |
114 |
36,200 |
|
140 |
4,300 |
| 95: "How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame" |
145 |
24,200 |
|
141 |
4,230 |
| 66: "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry" |
66 |
77,200 |
|
142 |
4,200 |
| 28: "How can I then return in happy plight" |
8 |
770,000 |
|
143 |
4,010 |
| 109: "O, never say that I was false of heart" |
33 |
132,000 |
|
144 |
3,790 |
| 124: "If my dear love were but the child of state" |
68 |
74,200 |
|
145 |
3,480 |
| 44: "If the dull substance of my flesh were thought" |
74 |
68,200 |
|
146 |
3,440 |
| 136: "If thy soul check thee that I come so near" |
17 |
564,000 |
|
147 |
3,390 |
| 137: "Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine
eyes" |
95 |
48,900 |
|
148 |
3,350 |
| 56: "Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said" |
153 |
19,800 |
|
149 |
3,320 |
| 148: "O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head" |
76 |
66,200 |
|
150 |
3,210 |
| 152: "In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn" |
123 |
31,900 |
|
151 |
3,080 |
| 26: "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage" |
73 |
68,800 |
|
152 |
2,990 |
| 64: "When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced" |
124 |
31,300 |
|
153 |
2,470 |
| 93: "So shall I live, supposing thou art true" |
137 |
26,200 |
|
154 |
1,850 |